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Aubin Louis Millin - National Antiquities or collection of Monuments to serve the general and particular History of the French Empire - Paris, M. Drouhin, 1790-1798 - 5 volumes.
Condition: good. Complete with all engravings. The bindings are heavily rubbed. Pieces of leather are missing. The hinges are broken. Each book with an ex-libris.
However, the book interiors are in excellent condition. All engravings (all present) are in very fresh condition.
Voluminous collection of monuments "such as tombs, inscriptions, statues, stained glass windows, frescoes, etc.; taken from abbeys, monasteries, castles and other places that have become national domains. Presented to the National Assembly, and welcomed by it, on December 9 1790." Illustrated with 243 numbered inset plates, some double-paged, engraved by Allais, Aubry, Biosse, Blanchard, Carpentier, Chapuy, François-Philippe Charpentier (1734-1817), Desmaisons, Nicolas.François Masquelier (1760-1809), Michel, Pierre Nicolas Ransonnette (1745-1810), Simon, Testard, etc. Table of plates at the end of the volume. Volume I opens with La Bastille: “We would be inexcusable to begin this history of the antiquities of the French Empire with the description of another monument. more important than the Bastille, by the terror inspired by its existence, and by the universal joy caused by its fall." Description also of the Montlhéry Tower and in Paris: Les Célestins, The Jacobins Convent, Les Feuillans, Hôtel Barbette, Saint-Denis de la Chartre. 53 plates.T2: Le petit Châtelet (plate after Garneray), Vincennes, Royaumont, Convent of the Good Men of Chaillot, Abbey of Barbeau, Convent of the Oratory in rue Saint-Honoré, former castle and church of Saint -Spire in Corbeil, Fountains of Juvisy, Notre-Dame de Mantes, the old Palace in Rouen, Les Cordeliers de Vernon, Le Pont-rouge in Paris. 49 plates.T3: Cordeliers de Mantes, Convent of the Grands-Augustins in Paris, City of Vernon, Collegiate Church of Ecouis, the Churches of Saint-Benoit, Saint-Côme and Mathurins in Paris, The Big Clock, Palace of Justice, Tower and fountain of the Maid of Rouen, Le Pilori de Paris. 43 plates.T4: Chapels of Saint-Yves, Saint-Julien des Ménestriers, Les Jacobins, Carmelites of Place Maubert, Blancs-Manteaux in Paris, City of Chaumont in the Oise, Priory of Long-Pont, City and castle from Gisors, Pont-de-l'Arche, Meulan, Calais. 55 plates.T5: Saint-Nicolas collegiate church in Amiens, Chartreux and Sainte-Geneviève abbey in Paris and Lille: Former Palace of the Counts of Flanders, Saint-Pierre collegiate church, Dominicans, Recollets convent and Saint-Pierre library. 43 plates. This book "is not without interest because it tells us a fairly large number of buildings that revolutionary vandalism has caused to disappear". Brunet (III, 1723)
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